In addition, a quiz or test tends to signal to learners what is important, and what is not. Composing learning experiencesis challenging indeed.

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On Fri, 10 Nov 1995 AndiHall@aol.com wrote:

> Katie Laird writes:> >While I do think that this may be a long time for a lecture, >ending a> >lesson in a quiz is not necessarily a bad thing, leaving open >the question> >of what the purpose of the quiz is. One of the biggest >problems with the> > I agree that synthesizing knowledge is important, but one of the dangers I> see with quizzes is that they tend to focus only on the previous hour and> twenty minutes. This may concretize what was learned in that class period,> AndiHall@aol.com >